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Roto Tools in After Effects
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01 Feb 2007
This is a 54 minute video showing almost all of the roto tools available to you in After Effects. Many people say AE has terrible roto tools, but I believe they just don't know how to use them to their full ability. I try to demonstrate as many of those capabilities as I can here.
Also, that there will be times in the tutorial where you hear me describing the cursor on screen, how it changes depending on where it is and what keyboard shortcuts you're using. The changing cursor was NOT recorded by my screen capture software for some strange reason. So when you hear me describing it but you are not seeing the change in the video, do not fear - YOUR cursor will change if you're following along at home.
Here's the links - one is a zipped Quicktime movie, the other a zipped text file.
http://www.mackdadd.com/tutorials/Rotoing_in_AE.zip (272 Megs)
http://www.mackdadd.com/tutorials/Cursor_disclaimer.zip
If you have any questions about rotoing in AE, please ask them!
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01 Feb 2007Great!! thanks a lot for taking the time to do this Sean, it's much appreciated! I wont be able to download this until i get home later on tonight, (I'm currently at work, and we have a download limit of about 70MB here, bah!) - I'll let you know how I get on.
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02 Feb 2007Sweet man, I'm going to download it and check it out tonight hopefully. I'm curious to see how you go about all this.
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Artflame Noir 172 posts02 Feb 2007Wow man, tnx again.. great stuff as usual from you..
well.. there goes my bandwidth lol.. -
02 Feb 2007and just to re-iterate, i don't really roto anything on this, i just show all the tools and options.
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mechis 520 posts02 Feb 2007Thanks hype... your tutes are always enlightening.
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02 Feb 2007Dude! How awsome was that! That was really top notch tutorial man, thanks a lot for the creating this!! That has taught me loads man! I get what you're talking about now with the whole combinations of hitting Ctrl & Alt, and dragging etc. That Rotobeizer function works really well when you know what you're doing with it!
I've managed to write 3 whole pages of notes on this man! Good stuff!
That tracking tip was great! Thanks a lot for sharing that. What I'm trying to track at the min is a window, so that little tip will come in extremely handy!
You nearly managed to prennounce my name right! Instead of 'eye-estyn' it's prennounced 'yestyn', nearly man! Better than what my GF's grandmother calles me, they've given up on trying to prennounce it, so they've simply gone and called me by the English counterpart - Justin. Ah well.
But seriously - thanks a lot for taking the time out to make this, it's a lot more than what I'd wished for.
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soudan 3 posts12 May 2010
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soudan 3 posts17 May 2010
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19 May 2010Well, there's alot of different techniques used on heavily motion blurred rotos. This video wasn't really showing roto techniques, more just all these tools that were available in AE at the time.
One thing you can definitely do is turn on motion blur for the rotos. Right click the mask, go to Mask > Motion Blur ON. You might have to change your Comp Advanced Settings though, to get this to look right. The settings should be Shutter Angle 180, Shutter Phase -90, like this:
You could also try using PV Feather. It lets you use a second mask to determine the feathering of your mask edge.
http://www.revisionfx.com/products/pvfeather/
However, alot of it is just practice. Its possible to get perfectly fine motion blurred mask edges by just knowing where to put the mask edge and when to animate the feathering. -
soudan 3 posts19 May 2010Cool man thanks the tips! This thread seems to be very quiet lately so I am glad you had time to respond.
Sean
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